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Wednesday why not read...Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist?

Told
in alternating view points, Nick and Norah give us an inside view of the first
night they met, what they did, and how they feel about it. Each of them have
serious insecurities from previous relationships so they are hesitant to trust
each other, or themselves. I preferred
Nick’s voice to Norah’s most of the time.
She seemed whiny and just annoyed me.
Nick is more open than Nora; he’s a bit like me, which is why I probably
liked him better. He says “There isn’t
loneliness, only this intense twoliness,” on page 80. Wow.

I did laugh at some of the things Norah
commented on, like on page 163 when she says, “All those Jackie Collins novels
Caroline and I read in seventh grade are totally starting to make sense.” (Serious snickering on my part—I think the
first dirty book I read was a Jackie Collins novel.) My first thought was to give this only three
stars because the “F” bomb is dropped so frequently in the first half of the
book. After finishing, I decided on four
stars, because it got better about the language, and I loved that the whole
thing just swept me up into the story.
I bought Nick and Norah, because I really like David Leviathan’s Every
Day. I have Dash and Lily’s Book of
Dares, by Leviathan and Cohn, so I think that’s going on my TBR pile. I’ve not watched the movie that comes from
this, but my students tell me I should.